Re: Bug#582321: TAG: dirsum -- commandline directory summary
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:05:50PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On 20/05/2010 11:21, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > hat does this do that existing tools don't?
> >
> > $ du -Sk | sort -nr | head -n10
> > 131960 ./.Newsletters.Washington_Post/cur
>
> not sure dirsum can do that either, but it's painful that du itself
> can't sort, since you can't use du -h before piping to sort.
Why not? What speaks against using:
du -h | sort -h
I think its suitable for that purpose.
Regards,
Patrick
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